The consortium said it is prepared to consider matching or exceeding higher bids.
Musk acquired the platform he renamed X for $44 billion in 2022.
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Musk called the OpenAI CEO Scam Altman.
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Musk was a co-founder with Altman of OpenAI in 2015 initially as a charitable enterprise.
He left before the company took off and subsequently launched his own AI venture,xAI.
He has twice sued Altmanfor betraying OpenAIs charitable roots.
At x.AI, we live by the values I was promised OpenAI would follow.
Its time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was.
We will check that that happens.
As we understand the OpenAI, Inc. Who on Earth would make that trade?
That value cannot be determined by insiders negotiating on both sides of the same table.
Musk was skeptical, saying, They dont actually have the money.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the offer.
